Updating Old .NET Framework Apps

with Isaac Levin

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Talk Description

Do you have some old apps lying around that you have to maintain? Do you long for a world where you could easily use the latest .NET innovations as part of your codebase. In this session we will have an honest conversation about what we should be aware of when it comes to migration. We will learn where we are with the latest in .NET and how we got there.

Folks will also go through some gotchas folks should be aware of when migrating from .NET Framework to the latest versions of .NET. We will also take a look at what can be done with tools, like the .NET Upgrade Assistant or Porting Assistant for .NET from AWS, which will walk us through the process of upgrading your legacy applications to the latest and greatest of .NET. By the end of this session, you will be able to take full advantage of the latest .NET and C# features, and foster better collaboration and developer productivity.


Speaker Bio

Isaac Levin is a .NET Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services as well as a Microsoft MVP. He has over 10 years of experience working as a developer for the web, mostly in the Microsoft Ecosystem. Outside of work, he hosts a podcast called Coffee and Open Source where he interviews folks from across the tech industry as well as builds open source projects like PresenceLight and GitHub Stat Tracker. He lives outside of Seattle Washington and likes to wind down from work with his wife Ariana and his 2 sons Isaac and Avery.

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